Territorio di Roma
| Reference: | CO-381 |
| Author | Giovanni Francesco CAMOCIO |
| Year: | 1559 |
| Zone: | Lazio |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 480 x 330 mm |
€4,000.00
| Reference: | CO-381 |
| Author | Giovanni Francesco CAMOCIO |
| Year: | 1559 |
| Zone: | Lazio |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 480 x 330 mm |
€4,000.00
Description
In the upper center, in a small cartouche, the title: TERRITORIO DI ROMA. In the cartouche on the lower right are drawn the symbols of the Apostolic Chamber and the initials of the Roman Senate S.P.Q.R. Next to the coat of arms, highlighted by a compass, is the graphic scale of Five miles equal to 39 mm. Orientation in the four corners with the names of the cardinal points: SEPTENTRIO, MERIDIES, ORIENS, OCCIDENS the northeast at the top.
Example in the rare first state of four described in Cartografia e Topografia Italiana del XVI Secolo, before the address of Giovanni Francesco Camocio.
“Replica veneziana della tavola anonima del 1557, stampata a Roma e basata sulla carta di Eufrosino della Volpaia, di cui riprende lo stesso titolo e il disegno del cartiglio; è molto simile nei dati geografici, ad eccezione della parte sinistra dove mostra un territorio più vasto. Si estende infatti a nord-ovest, arrivando and includere la città di Viterbo. In passato ritenuta anonima, poiché la prima stesura della carta è stampata senza dati editoriali, viene attribuita a Giovanni Francesco Camocio (Bifolco-Ronca, 2014) per la presenza della firma dell’editore negli esemplari di secondo stato. I simboli della Camera Apostolica e la sigla S.P.Q.R. in basso a destra sono indicazione, secondo Almagià, di sede pontificia vacante, che collocherebbe, quindi, la carta nel periodo compreso tra la morte di papa Paolo IV (18 agosto 1559) e l’elezione di Pio IV (25 dicembre 1559). Alla morte del Camocio (1575) la lastra fu ristampata, inalterata ad eccezione dell’imprint editoriale, da Donato Bertelli” (cfr. Cartografia e Topografia Italiana del XVI Secolo, p. 2026).
The map by Eufrosino Della Volpaia, can be considered the only original work, for the 16th century, of the Roman Campagna and was taken as a model for numerous maps of Latium. It reveals very close similarities in content with what is reported in Domenico Bocca Maza's Otto libri quali narreno de varii et diverse cose apertinenti alli Cacciatori, printed in Rome in 1548. Almagià states: “Essa può definirsi una carta topografica, e tale è anche per la copia di particolari di ogni genere e per l’esattezza del disegno delle località, le cui figurazioni prospettiche corrispondono all’aspetto reale, quale è in molti casi ancora riconoscibile, e dimostrano una perfetta conoscenza personale della Regione. Altre figurazioni di vario genere, alcune delle quali singolarissime, porgono una viva immagine della Campagna Romana in quel tempo”.
Etching and engraving, impressed on contemporary laid paper, trimmed at the borderline and with added margins, in perfect condition.
Bibliografia
Bifolco-Ronca, Cartografia e Topografia Italiana del XVI Secolo (2018), pp. 2026-27, tav. 1023 I/IV; Almagià (1929): p. 21, B; Ashby (1914): p. 5; Bifolco-Ronca (2014): n. 113; Frutaz (1972): vol I, p. 28; Lago (1994): p. 278, fig. 41; Lago (2002): p. 441, fig. 440; Mammuccari (2002): p. 104; Mostra Bergamo (2016): n. 61; Perini (1996): p. 109; Tooley (1939): n. 478 & n. 479; Tooley (1983): n. 477a; Valerio (2008): tav. 33.
Giovanni Francesco CAMOCIO (Attivo a Venezia tra 1558 - 1575)
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Publisher Venetian, born in the first half of the century. XVI, in an uncertain place, perhaps in Asolo (Treviso) perhaps Slot (Cream). Most likely the first hypothesis because the presence of Camocio family, originally from Piedmont, is widely documented in the town of Treviso. The family Camocio, also belonged the celebrated Hellenist John the Baptist, considered by some historians, relatives and even John's brother Francis. Camocio already resident in Venice, the Doge in 1552 asked for and obtained, together with other shareholders, as editor, the privilege for fifteen years to publish the translation into Latin of the writings of Greek authors. In his book publisher, is also attributed some ten editions in Health (until 1571). The main activity of Camocio, owner of the library "The symbolism of the Pyramid" in San Lio in Haberdashery, was the sale of prints and engravings, intaglio reproductions of important works of art and maps, while his activities as a publisher of books is fragmented and delayed in time. At the "Pyramid" is also sold books on spicy, like the sonnets printed by Domenico Zenoi, which earned him the payment of a fine: 10 ducats to the author and owner of 5 ducats a library. Camocio was one of the largest publishers of maps of the sixteenth century, all produced in a laboratory chalcographic definitely its own. Although it is very difficult to determine precisely how many cards you collected and managed to produce and print, because of the ease with which, over time, they falsified the names of authors, publishers, and dates were changed. However, the presence of his name in many papers and his demands for privilege testify to his busy schedule. Subjects taken by great artists such as Titian and Michelangelo, views of cities, fortresses and maps, for the realization of which were called to work as evidenced by the signatures on the cards, engravers and cartographers of the value of Domenico Zenoi (Zenoni), Donato and Ferdinand (Ferdinand) Bertelli, Paolo Furlani (Forlani) and Giacomo Gastaldi.
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Giovanni Francesco CAMOCIO (Attivo a Venezia tra 1558 - 1575)
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Publisher Venetian, born in the first half of the century. XVI, in an uncertain place, perhaps in Asolo (Treviso) perhaps Slot (Cream). Most likely the first hypothesis because the presence of Camocio family, originally from Piedmont, is widely documented in the town of Treviso. The family Camocio, also belonged the celebrated Hellenist John the Baptist, considered by some historians, relatives and even John's brother Francis. Camocio already resident in Venice, the Doge in 1552 asked for and obtained, together with other shareholders, as editor, the privilege for fifteen years to publish the translation into Latin of the writings of Greek authors. In his book publisher, is also attributed some ten editions in Health (until 1571). The main activity of Camocio, owner of the library "The symbolism of the Pyramid" in San Lio in Haberdashery, was the sale of prints and engravings, intaglio reproductions of important works of art and maps, while his activities as a publisher of books is fragmented and delayed in time. At the "Pyramid" is also sold books on spicy, like the sonnets printed by Domenico Zenoi, which earned him the payment of a fine: 10 ducats to the author and owner of 5 ducats a library. Camocio was one of the largest publishers of maps of the sixteenth century, all produced in a laboratory chalcographic definitely its own. Although it is very difficult to determine precisely how many cards you collected and managed to produce and print, because of the ease with which, over time, they falsified the names of authors, publishers, and dates were changed. However, the presence of his name in many papers and his demands for privilege testify to his busy schedule. Subjects taken by great artists such as Titian and Michelangelo, views of cities, fortresses and maps, for the realization of which were called to work as evidenced by the signatures on the cards, engravers and cartographers of the value of Domenico Zenoi (Zenoni), Donato and Ferdinand (Ferdinand) Bertelli, Paolo Furlani (Forlani) and Giacomo Gastaldi.
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